Bücher von Samantha Harvey

From acclaimed Orange Prize and Guardian First Book Award finalist Samantha Harvey, a stunning novel of female friendship, betrayal, and revenge"You were going to work your way into my marriage and you were going to call its new three-way shape holy," writes the unnamed narrator of Dear Thief.The thief is Nina, or Butterfly, who disappeared eighteen years earlier and who is being summoned by this letter, this bomb, these recollections, revisions, accusations, and confessions."Sometimes I imagine, out of sheer playfulness, that I am writing this as a kind of defence for having murdered and buried you under the patio."Dear Thief is a letter to an old friend, a song, a jewel, and a continuously surprising triangular love story. Samantha Harvey writes with a dazzling blend of fury and beauty about the need for human connection and the brutal vulnerability that need exposes."While I write my spare hand might be doing anything for all you know; it might be driving a pin into your voodoo stomach."Dear Thief is a rare novel that traverses the human heart in a striking and indelible way.

Originell, tiefgründig und mit Humor erkundet Samantha Harvey das Mysterium des Schlafs und die fatalen Folgen von Schlaflosigkeit. "Ein Meisterwerk, so gut, dass es mir den Atem verschlägt." (Helen Macdonald)Von einem Tag auf den anderen verliert die Schriftstellerin Samantha Harvey die Fähigkeit zu schlafen. Sie gerät in Panik und versucht alles, um ihre Schlaflosigkeit zu überwinden: Akupunktur, Sanskrit-Gesänge und Ernährungsumstellung, Dankestagebücher und Schlafapparaturen - nichts scheint zu helfen. Das Jahr ohne Schlaf ist ein eindringlicher innerer Monolog über ein Jahr ohne eine der grundlegenden menschlichen Lebensbedingungen. Originell, tiefgründig und mit Humor erkundet Harvey auf ihren nächtlichen Reisen das Erinnern, das Schreiben, Tod und Überlebenswillen und entwirft eine düster-komische Anatomie der Schlaflosigkeit. Ein genresprengendes literarisches Memoir von der Intensität jener Wachträume, die alle Schlaflosen heimsuchen.

But will he be able to unravel what happened to the victim, Thomas Newman, the wealthiest, most capable and industrious man in the village?Moving back in time towards the moment of Thomas Newman's death, the story is related by Reve - an extraordinary creation, a patient shepherd to his wayward flock, and a man with secrets of his own to keep.

When a young student follows William's arguments to a shocking conclusion, it appears William has already set his own fate in motion. Against a backdrop of tabloid frenzy, Leonard can only watch as William embraces the danger in the only way he knows how, which threatens to consume not only himself, but his entire family.